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A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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lotsofpulp wrote: post #487
Jensson wrote: post #468

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It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative. The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a…

The election results were 77,302,580 votes against 75,017,613 votes, or 49.8% versus 48.3%. I would not call that unpopular.

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Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by prox »

user34283 wrote: post #531
jacquesm wrote: post #455

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/r/conservative has absolutely nothing to do with conservatives, but everything to do with the cult-of-trump. It's a great place to read up on how completely crazy the world has become, if you had posted any thread there on the onion a decade ago absolutely nobody would have believed it to be possible.

If you think "any thread there" is that absurd, you are clearly not a conservative at all. You are another liberal ranting about /r/conservative, are you not? It is in my opinion a very weak argument to point at /r/conservative specifically as an example for how the mainstream censorship on Reddit is not overwhelmingly liberal.

You are making a straw man fallacy.

It’s not both all the other subs, the point under contention is about that you cannot be critical or reasonably discuss anything proper in r/conservative.

I don’t know if you have been following the sub, I have, and it always follows a similar pattern. If it’s a new topic, some discussion is allowed, but soon everyone needs to toe the party line.

Edit : I encourage free discussion on this point, instead of downvoting.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by firesteelrain »

debtta wrote: post #558
mike_hearn wrote: post #404

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You missed maybe the biggest one, /r/bitcoin, which around 2015 started banning anyone who wanted Bitcoin to actually follow the original design and continue scaling up on-chain transactions. The moderator, some anonymous student (possibly named Michael Marquardt), literally declared anyone who wanted Bitcoin to be used for regular transactions offtopic and banned them on a massive scale. When explaining his actions…

I think maybe this is a feature rather than a bug. I know at least a couple of subreddits for specific 'true crime' cases which split into one for people who believed the suspect was guilty and one where everyone believed they were innocent. The thing is, the split fora were actually much better than pre split. When both sets of people were together every topic degenerated rapidly in exactly the same way: meticulous_…

I see your point. It just looks like people who can’t be civil to each other.

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Post by queenkjuul »

diogocp wrote: post #476
throw-10-8 wrote: post #358

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Remind me again how the American slaves were freed?

Your best example of a "historically efficient way to solve political problems" is a 4 year civil war that killed more than half a million people and, after all that, still left African Americans as second-class citizens for a century after? I wonder what an inefficient way would look like.

Go learn how weekends were created

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michaelnovati wrote: post #171
4bpp wrote: post #139

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Your post does not really do much to dispel the negative picture that the opening article paints of you. You say their decline is "predominantly an industry problem". Is this also the case for your own company, Formation? You went on the record comparing Codesmith to a sex cult and accusing it of deceiving and exploiting its students and evidently consider criticising them to be a mission worth years of near-daily de…

I compared the statement 'do this because it changed my life and the life of many others' to the type of language used in cult documentaries on HBO. I stand by that opinion. Codesmith is not a sex cult. I can't believe I'm writing that sentence.

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Post by sebstefan »

jacquesm wrote: post #397

I've seen a lot of shady moderation on reddit and it's one reason I quit using it. There is the obvious brigading, mods on powertrips and but also massive probably paid astro turfing campaigns. Reddit has gone downhill substantially in the last five years. HN is not immune either, but at least we dont' have a 'mods on powertrips' problem, in fact the opposite.

It's been going on since forever and I find it insane that they still haven't done anything to curb it

There could just be an appeals system and if one moderator messes up a high enough percentage of the time, they get the boot.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by user34283 »

queenkjuul wrote: post #557
user34283 wrote: post #542

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You're not a conservative. Why are you so concerned about participation criteria for the conservative subreddit, one of the only distinctly right wing places on the whole platform?

How do you know their beliefs?

I am making a guess based on the opinions presented.

The point here being that it is hardly relevant how a subreddit specifically and explicitely for conservatives is moderated, when we are talking how mainstream subreddits are censoring conservative opinions.

Many grievances appear to be liberals concerning themselves with how /r/conservative is moderated, most likely after being banned for astroturfing there.

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Post by le-mark »

beloch wrote: post #508
safety1st wrote: post #226

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Reddit has a moderation problem, and it's a big one. They've now been asked to appear in front of Congress to address concerns about politically motivated violence being incited through their platform: https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-invites-c... Personally I believe I've seen more people in the past few years wish a politically motivated death on somebody else via Reddit, than I have anywhere else…

“The politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk claimed the life of a husband, father, and American patriot. In the wake of this tragedy, and amid other acts of politically motivated violence, Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence. To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear befor…

> There may be an attempt to coerce these platforms to start moderating in a way that's more favourable to Trump.

That’s the real comedy about this; when we like it censorship is good, when we don’t like it (Covid shutdown, anti vax, Jan 6th) censorship is bad. The double standard is shocking, yet completely normalized.

Besides any attempt to end violent rhetoric has to start with POTUS himself, theater exactly what it is.

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Post by nomdep »

jacquesm wrote: post #509
Jensson wrote: post #468

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It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative. The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a…

That subreddit was taken over just like the conservative party in the USA was taken over. If you allow that to happen (both the party and the subreddit) then that's your problem. In other countries Trump would have had to found his own party, he'd still have captured a chunk of the vote but at least the Republicans that once were would not have squandered their identity. Now the house is on fire and it doesn't look l…

Keeping the country in one piece is exactly why Trump won, the alternative was falling off the cliff.

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Post by tuesdaynight »

kranke155 wrote: post #540
debtta wrote: post #536

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I've often posted on the internet at 4am local time before. How did you establish the posters were Russian or Iranian, other than by time zone? (4am London is working hours for around half the world population.) Not denying that there are people in these countries who want to cause trouble on the internet. But there are many such people in all countries...

There are huge influence operations basically on every national sub. I found one on r/portugal, clearly coordinated network spreading political news of a certain persuasion. R/donald became famous because the admins turned on national flags for users there revealing a significant percentage was Russian IPs without even a VPN. The Russian users called it “the mark of David” and compared it to Nazism.

It's crazy for me that it's not a well-known thing that Russia, Iran, China, North Korea and other countries are fueling the polarization of western politics using bots on EVERY RELEVANT social media. The right wing bots are kind of known, but a lot of people aren't aware of other things (e.g., TENET Media [1]), or that they are fueling left wing circles as well [2].

People believe that these countries would love to do that, but for some reason, they think they are not doing as much as possible.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19802

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/25/scottish-ind...

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